Event At Shanghai MoCA Part Of Radical Design Week 2012 Jin Xing Dance Troupe + Mika Ihamuotila (Image: Erica Ji for Jing Daily) Recently, the popular Finnish textile & clothing design house Marimekko held its first fashion show at MoCA Shanghai in People’s Park as part of Radical Design Week 2012. Having made its official entrée into the…
Gatsby’s Influence Reaches Chinese Fashion
Mainland Marketing Campaigns Follow U.S. Fashion Playbook Chinese models Du Juan and Sui He pose in a Great Gatsby-style shoot for Vogue China. (Vogue China) U.S. blockbuster The Great Gatsby has inspired a plethora of marketing opportunities for luxury brands in the United States, including a full-scale New York costume exhibit from Prada, which designed…
Week In Review: April 8-12, 2013
In case you missed them the first time around, here are some of Jing Daily’s top posts for the week of April 8-12: Christie’s Signs Groundbreaking Deal To Hold Auctions On Mainland Christie’s CEO Steven Murphy in Hong Kong on November 22, 2012. (South China Morning Post) In a major development for the role of…
Mainland Chinese Fuel Luxury Brand Profits, Rent Hikes In Hong Kong
Tourists From Chinese Mainland Rose To 28 Million In 2011, 67% Of Total Tourists from mainland China continue to flock to Hong Kong to buy duty-free luxury goods From waiting in hours-long lines to stock up on luxury goods to causing controversies at the Dolce & Gabbana flagship in Tsim Sha Tsui to making a…
Getting To The Bottom Of China’s Luxury Price Discrepancy
Analyzing China’s Controversial Luxury Pricing Louis Vuitton’s Paris flagship is a Mecca of sorts for Chinese tourist-shoppers With the growing economic power of urban Chinese consumers and the increasing popularity of luxury goods throughout mainland China, the issue of the discrepancy in prices between China and overseas markets like Europe has come to the forefront….
Designers Hope To Catch China’s Attention With Great Wall Runway Show
Proenza Schouler, Rag & Bone, and Marchesa To Present Fall Collections CFDA recently issued a press release stating that a runway show will be held at the Great Wall of China in June. While the Great Wall may not have been so great at keeping enemies at bay throughout history, it is certainly shaping up as…
Beijing Retail Shorts: Chronicle, Breguet, Moncler, Hogan
New Store Openings & New Collections In The Chinese Capital A roundup of fashion and retail news from Beijing, from the launch of the Scandinavian footwear brand Chronicle to Moncler’s sprawling new Sanlitun boutique. Chronicle Launch At Sanlitun D.Lounge This week, the Scandinavian men’s footwear brand Chronicle marked the launch of its new boutique at…
Stella McCartney: High-Profile Events Underscore Brand’s China Ambitions
Click:Skin Care Device Four-Day Tour Amps New Stores in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong Tan Yuan, Stella McCartney, and Bonnie Chen at the designer’s Shanghai black-tie event. (Women’s Wear Daily) This week, British fashion designer Stella McCartney wraps up a four-day event-filled Asia visit as she expands her label’s presence in China. With her brand’s number…
Stylist Nicola Formichetti And Artist Yi Zhou Promote Chinese Designers In New York
Formichetti Teams Up With Zhou And Modern Weekly For “Nicola’s” Pop-Up A screenshot of Yi Zhou’s “East-Meets-West” short film Jing Daily regularly spotlights some of China’s up-and-coming young designers, from Beijing’s Vega Zaishi Wang to Shanghai’s Jenny Ji, and now it seems that interest in Chinese designers is spreading in major fashion hubs like New…
Carolina Herrera Sets Sights On China
New Shanghai Boutique Planned For Fall Solidifies Designer’s Asia Push A look from Hererra’s Fall 2013 collection. (Women’s Wear Daily) Carolina Herrera will be expanding her China presence as part of a push into Asia with the Shanghai opening of her first China boutique planned for this fall. Although the move comes at a time…